INDIAN & INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL NEWS

Kalyani Football Stadium, is one of the Football stadiums of India under Kalyani Municipality, Nadia, West Bengal. The Municipality not only host the I-LEAGUE or Calcutta Premier League matches and the other football matches throughout the year but also organise the football oriented cultural programmes.

India National Football team were the winners of the Gold Medal in Djakarta Asian Games in the year 1962. The football fans of India still remerber the glorified history of the remarkable momemt. On 4th January 1962 India won gold medal,in Senayan Stadium of Djakarta in Indonesia in front of 1.20 Lakhs spectators who had cheered for their
home team.

To remember the great moment of our history, Kalyani Municipality will be felicitating the surviving members of the gold medal winning 1962 Asian Games football teams at "Rittik Sadan Hall" on 12th January at 3.00 PM. Earlier the surviving members of this historic team felecitated alongwith 1951 Asian Games winner sruviving squad by AIFF
on 21st August 2012 at Delhi Football house Programme.

Kalyani Municipality Chairman and Football lover and commentetor Nilimesh Roychowdhury will be present in the programme. He Said, The living legendary Indian Footballers of the said team ,Prodyot Burman, Arun Ghosh, Padmashree P.K.Banerjee, and team Captain Padmasree Chuni Goswami, Tulsidas Balaram, Arumoynoigam, Prasanta sinha will be
felecitate in the colourful programme.

Finally, a Dannce programme has be organised by FAMOUS Oddssi DANCER " Mrs. DONA GANGULY and his Trup"

1962 ASIAN GAMES - FOOTBALL - RESULTS

India played the Group B with South Korea, Japan and Thailand. In the first match on 26th August India lost 0-2 to South Korea. On August 28th India beat Thailand 4-1 where PK Banerjee scored brace and one each by Chuni Goswami, T. Balaram.

On August 29th India Beat Japan 2-0 to reach in the knockout stage of Semi Final. T. Balaram and PK Banerjee scored the goals.

In the Semi Final India beat South Vietnam 3-2 where Captain Chuni Goswami scired brace and Jarnail Singh scored the other. On the other side, South Korea beat Malaysia 2-1 to reach in the Final.

On 4th September, In the Final match India beat South Korea 2-1 to win the title. P.K Banerjee scored the goal in 13th minute and late Jarnail Singh scored in 17th minute. South Korea reduced the margin through cha Tae-Sung on 85th minute.
THE INDIAN TEAM - 1962 Djakarta ASIAD